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Asian Arguments eBook Series

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  • North Korea

    State of Paranoia

    by Paul French ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia

    Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia

    by Andrei Lankov ...
    Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea

    Essays on Daily Life in North Korea

    by Andrei Lankov ...
    The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily existence. This book describes that difficult but determined existence and the world that the North ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The World Is Bigger Now

    An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness

    For the first time, Euna Lee—the young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea—tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world.On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when ... Read more

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  • Nothing to Envy

    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemicNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTIn this landmark addition to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Islamic State

    ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

    The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year AwardBorn of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in the Middle East. By combining religious fanaticism and military prowess, the new self-declared caliphate poses a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Family of Secrets

    The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

    by Russ Baker ...
    **“Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, & faultlessly measured in its judgments.” -Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon & Partners in PowerWas the rise of the disastrous George W. Bush just a matter of family connections and sly, cynical operatives such as Karl Rove? Or was something more at work-something that endures beyond Bush's departure from Washington?**Award-winning ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Morning After

    The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was

    A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analysts, Chantal Hébert, and one of Quebec's top political broadcasters, Jean Lapierre.Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec referendum, a still-murky episode in Canadian history that continues to defy our understanding. The referendum brought ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Brain Maker

    The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life

    The bestselling author of Grain Brain uncovers the powerful role of gut bacteria in determining your brain's destiny.Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise-from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution is underway that can solve this problem: Astonishing new research is revealing that the health of your ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

    by Joanne Fluke ...
    Series Book 1 - A Hannah Swensen Mystery
    Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Joanne Fluke’s bestselling culinary capers with a brand new recipe!No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke’s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes—one delicious clue at a time—has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Last One Home

    A Novel

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring standalone novel about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love.Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close—until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Escape from Camp 14

    One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

    by Blaine Harden ...
    **“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s *Escape from Camp 14." —*Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-LaThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped**North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD